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Their Eyes Were Watching God Interactive Reading Log Assignment Over the course of the summer, you will be completing an Interactive Reading Log for Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The purpose of the Interactive Reading Log assignment is to provide a vehicle for you to practice analyzing a text both rhetorically and as literature. Moreover, in creating a document that includes your own insights and analysis, the Interactive Reading Log will also serve as an excellent resource when preparing for the free response essay on the AP exam. Criteria: ! Write a half-page summary for each chapter (100-150 words). ! Underneath your summary, choose two different passages from the reading, complete with citations, and explore the significant features of each passage in two or more sentences. What features of the text do you notice? Which seem important to you? In addition to what you have learned in other English classes, use the five areas of focus below to guide your passage selection. ! Your interactive reading log must be typed; however, you DO NOT need to print out a copy. I will give you instructions on how to submit your reading log electronically on the first day of class. Please record all of your entries into one computer document; do not create a separate document for each entry. Focus: Write about what you understand to be important or key elements. ! Setting: Analyze the setting of the novel and mood. ! Style: Analyze imagery, diction, syntax, and use of allusions. Do you notice any patterns? ! Characterization: Identify point of view and character development. ! Textual Features: Analyze elements of plot, narrative structure, and the use of interesting literary elements (tropes and schemes). ! Symbolism: Analyze the symbols and symbolic meanings in the novel. ! Theme: Identify and analyze the prominent recurring thematic statements. What is the text/author trying to get the reader to think about regarding life, etc.? Rubric: ! Summary 3 pts. ! 1 st Passage + Commentary 1 pt. ! 2 nd Passage + Commentary 1 pt. Ch. 1 ___/5 Ch. 2 ___/5 Ch. 3 ___/5 Ch. 4 __/5 Ch. 5 ___/5 Ch. 6 ___/5 Ch. 7 ___/5 Ch. 8 ___/5 Ch. 9 __/5 Ch. 10 ___/5 Ch. 11 ___/5 Ch. 12 ___/5 Ch. 13 ___/5 Ch. 14 ___/5 Ch. 15 ___/5 Ch. 16 ___/5 Ch. 17 ___/5 Ch. 18 ___/5 Ch. 19 ___/5 Ch. 20 ___/5 Score: _____/100

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Interactive Reading Log Assignment

Over the course of the summer, you will be completing an Interactive Reading Log for Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The purpose of the Interactive Reading Log assignment is to provide a vehicle for you to practice analyzing a text both rhetorically and as literature. Moreover, in creating a document that includes your own insights and analysis, the Interactive Reading Log will also serve as an excellent resource when preparing for the free response essay on the AP exam.

Criteria:! Write a half-page summary for each chapter (100-150 words).! Underneath your summary, choose two different passages from the reading, complete with

citations, and explore the significant features of each passage in two or more sentences. What features of the text do you notice? Which seem important to you? In addition to what you have learned in other English classes, use the five areas of focus below to guide your passage selection.

! Your interactive reading log must be typed; however, you DO NOT need to print out a copy. I will give you instructions on how to submit your reading log electronically on the first day of class. Please record all of your entries into one computer document; do not create a separate document for each entry.

Focus: Write about what you understand to be important or key elements. ! Setting: Analyze the setting of the novel and mood.! Style: Analyze imagery, diction, syntax, and use of allusions. Do you notice any patterns?! Characterization: Identify point of view and character development.! Textual Features: Analyze elements of plot, narrative structure, and the use of interesting

literary elements (tropes and schemes).! Symbolism: Analyze the symbols and symbolic meanings in the novel.! Theme: Identify and analyze the prominent recurring thematic statements. What is the

text/author trying to get the reader to think about regarding life, etc.?

Rubric: ! Summary 3 pts.! 1st Passage + Commentary 1 pt.! 2nd Passage + Commentary 1 pt.

Ch. 1

___/5

Ch. 2

___/5

Ch. 3

___/5

Ch. 4

__/5

Ch. 5

___/5Ch. 6

___/5

Ch. 7

___/5

Ch. 8

___/5

Ch. 9

__/5

Ch. 10

___/5Ch. 11

___/5

Ch. 12

___/5

Ch. 13

___/5

Ch. 14

___/5

Ch. 15

___/5Ch. 16

___/5

Ch. 17

___/5

Ch. 18

___/5

Ch. 19

___/5

Ch. 20

___/5Score: _____/100

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Interactive Reading Log SampleBased on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Section 2: We learn that the boy was born on the day that the world was destroyed. On that day

this little boy came into a condemned world and there is no hope of a good life. The man

remembers his wife and how she gave up on their family when it all got too hard. She had so

much sorrow in her heart and she was ready to go to her “new lover” death. The boy and the man

barley hang on as they make their way over the mountains in the dead of winter. Slowly their

supplies dwindle and the cold keeps creeping in. The world they live in is a terrifying place.

They avoid all people, and see numerous dead bodies. Survival instincts that have surfaced in

people make them all strangers lethal and worth avoiding for the sake of preserving one’s own

life. Even the old man who was struck by lighting couldn’t be saved because the survival of the

man and the boy must come first.

Passage 1: He’d carried his bifold about til it wore corner-shaped holes in his trousers... then he

took it out and went through tis contents... then he laid it down on the road and then he stood and

they went on (51). Things from his old life cannot help him or the boy anymore. They are merely

memories from a past life that have the potential to hold him back from surviving in the new

world. He needs to let go in order to survive.

Passage 2: The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I

would never have come this far (57). The mother’s voice is one of the man’s memories. She tells

him that the only reason that she lasted as long as she did in the new world is the boy, to keep

him alive.